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Few cases of sexual assault against journalists have ever
been documented, a product of powerful cultural and professional stigmas. But
now dozens of journalists are coming forward to say they have been sexually
abused in the course of their work. A
CPJ special report by Lauren Wolfe

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New York Times
photographer Lynsey Addario is speaking publicly about sexual aggression she
experienced while detained in Libya last month by forces loyal to Muammar
Qaddafi. Addario was held
for six days with Times colleagues
Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, and Tyler Hicks, all of whom were subjected
to physical abuse. In this interview with CPJ, Addario speaks candidly
about the brutality, focusing particularly on the groping and other sexual
aggression she endured. Farrell, her colleague, also spoke briefly with CPJ.
All forms of anti-press violence are abhorrent, but the issue of sexual
aggression has not been as widely documented or discussed as other types of
attacks. Since CBS News disclosed in February that correspondent
Lara Logan was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted while on assignment
in Cairo, more journalists are starting to speak out in hopes the issue can be
more fully understood. Here is Addario's story:

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On
March 15, four New York Times
journalists were detained
in Libya while crossing a checkpoint after they entered the country without
visas. They were released six days later. The four--photojournalists Lynsey
Addario and Tyler Hicks, and reporters Anthony Shadid and Stephen Farrell--came
to Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism on Thursday for what
will be their only public event. The
panel was moderated by Columbia Professor Ann Cooper, who was formerly CPJ's
executive director.

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New York, March 17, 2011--Bahraini authorities expelled a CNN
reporter and briefly detained another international reporter on Wednesday amid
an intensified crackdown on political unrest. The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the Bahraini government's ongoing obstruction of news
media and calls for authorities to allow journalists to cover this story of
international import. Elsewhere in the region, anti-press attacks and
harassment continued to be reported in Morocco, Yemen, and Libya.